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A Department of Justice unit dedicated to “preventing and responding to” “hate crimes” tracked the conservative education policy group Moms for Liberty in the same manner it tracked the Ku Klux Klan, according to internal emails obtained by The Daily Wire. Moms For Liberty was tracked by the DOJ’s Community Relations Service (CRS) alongside symbols such as the noose, the Confederate flag, and the swastika. The only other groups whose movements were similarly tracked, the emails show, were the Ku Klux Klan, a second KKK-style group, and the Oath Keepers. The DOJ concealed the records from the public by ignoring a Freedom of Information Act request, but released them pursuant to a lawsuit filed by America First Legal on behalf of The Daily Wire. They show the Community Relations Service, which says its role is “preventing and responding to community tensions and hate crimes, bias, bullying, and discrimination,” tracked targets like Moms for Liberty through Google and LexisNexis alerts. The DOJ did not return a request for comment on why it was tracking Moms for Liberty. It appears to have used its tracking of Moms for Liberty to identify school boards considering enacting conservative-leaning education policy. It then pressured school boards to defer to the DOJ to resolve the differences of opinion between duly-elected conservative officials and leftist activists, instead of enacting platforms they won elections on. The Daily Wire obtained emails from DOJ-CRS “Conciliation Specialist” Hannah Levine. The emails suggest that she did little other than track supposed “hate” by setting up Google Alerts and LexisNexis alerts for keywords. For example, she scoured the news for articles that said “washington, dc n-word” and “washington, dc confederate flag.” On July 20, 2023, a Google Alert set for”‘moms for liberty’ virginia” turned up an article that said that the “Virginia Department of Education releases new policies for transgender students.” Days later, Levine wrote to school board members in Roanoke County, Virginia, to “offer our services in conflict resolution.” “CRS is aware of ongoing community tensions in Roanoke County following the release of the new model policies for transgender students. I’d like to connect to see if we might be able to offer support and services as you work to manage conflict within the community related to this,” she wrote in an email that was first reported by The Daily Wire last August. Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had drafted a “model” policy that would prevent schools from gender-transitioning children without their parents’ consent, which school boards had the option to adopt. In deep-red Roanoke County, Youngkin won twice as many votes as his Democratic opponent, with similar results down-ballot. In a democracy, that meant that the locality had chosen to implement conservative policy. In the United States, schools are locally controlled. Yet CRS seemed to ask local school board members to defer to CRS because of “tensions” between the elected leaders who had an overwhelming mandate, and a tiny band of leftist agitators. The Daily Wire compiled a list of alerts the DOJ unit had set to monitor, based on the emails produced. The words tracked by the DOJ official, often paired with jurisdictions such as “washington, dc” or “virginia,” were: antisemit* bias bigot* bullying confederate flag Daleneo Martin [a black teen who was shot by police after he took off in a stolen car as police tried to apprehend him, trapping the police officer in the car as he crashed it into a house, whose family alleged that his civil rights were violated] deface disability discriminat* full haus [which the Southern Poverty Law Center claims is a white supremacist group in West Virginia] hate speech hate symbol homophobi* Irvo Otieno [a mentally ill Kenyan who was asphyxiated by sheriff’s deputies and hospital guards attempting to restrain the “combative” man in a psychiatric facility, and whose family hired civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump to extract a payout] islamophob* klan noose n-word moms for liberty oath keepers protest racis* “red truck bakery” [a bakery that claimed it was harassed by conservatives after it gave free coffee to Black Lives Matter activists, but not those who believed “all lives matter] sexism shooting police-involved slur swastika tension* vigil white supremac* There is no evidence that Moms for Liberty or elected officials in Roanoke were committing hate crimes. Instead, DOJ seemed to be operating on the premise that either the Republican governor’s proposed policy was itself “hate,” or that lawless leftist activists created “tensions,” which opened the door to federal intervention designed to diffuse the tensions by appeasing them. Two leftist protesters were detained by police for allegedly disrupting a school board meeting on the topic by screaming. The emails show that CRS at times pressured locals, using emails from doj.gov accounts, to accept their “services,” pestering them when they ignored them or said they had no interest. CRS presented itself as a neutral arbitrator on issues like Youngkin’s transgender policy even as CRS provided ideological “trainings” such as “Transgender Training for Law Enforcement.” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice called the findings “a new low for the Department of Justice.” telling The Daily Wire “We reject the notion that advocating for parental rights and the well-being of children is an act of hate and we call on the Department of Justice to clarify its position on this matter,” Justice told The Daily Wire. “The actions of the federal government should never infringe upon the rights of parents to engage in the democratic process.” Ironically, the top item in the Moms for Liberty Google alert that flagged Youngkin’s policy was an article about the “sick strategy of smearing moms as Nazis.” Another Moms for Liberty Google alert said “America First Legal Launches Investigation Into Government Collusion with the Extremist SPLC to Target Parents’ Rights Advocate Groups,” pointing to an article that said that the SPLC labels mainstream, center-right groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education as “extremists,” while the DOJ treats SPLC as a source of credible information. During the Obama administration, the CRS’s budget was $12.5 million, but it grew to $15.5 million by 2019. In 2020, Donald Trump unsuccessfully proposed eliminating CRS after the Heritage Foundation said it was only stoking racial conflict. It has grown since, with the Biden administration requesting $29 million for fiscal 2025, which would double its Obama-era size.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) filed a complaint on Tuesday that raised doubts about whether the judge in former President Donald Trump‘s hush-money trial had been randomly selected for the case. Rules for the New York State Trial Courts require criminal actions be assigned to a judge via “random selection” authorized by the chief administrator, Stefanik wrote in a letter. Yet Merchan is not only presiding over Trump’s trial but also oversaw a criminal trial against the Trump Organization and will be presiding over Trump ally Steve Bannon’s fraud trial. Stefanik also pointed out that Merchan has donated to groups supporting Democrats and has a daughter who is a political consultant with a record of doing work for Democrat candidates. “One cannot help but suspect that the ‘random selection’ at work in the assignment of Acting Justice Merchan, a Democrat Party donor, to these cases involving prominent Republicans, is in fact not random at all,” Stefanik said. Stefanik said the “simple answer” for why Merchan was picked for all three cases was that whoever made the assignment “intentionally” selected him to “increase the chance” of convictions. The letter was addressed to the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct and Kay-Ann Porter Campbell, inspector general for the New York State Unified Court System Office of Court Administration. Stefanik requested that both recipients “investigate this anomaly to determine whether the required random selection process was in fact followed” in the trio of cases she mentioned. “If Acting Justice Merchan or any other Justices of the Court are found to have violated these rules, I would hope that the Commission would subject them to the required discipline,” Stefanik wrote. “And if any non-judicial employees of the Court are involved in such a scheme, I would hope that the Inspector General subject them to the appropriate sanction.” The New York Post reported a statement from the New York State Office of Court Administration (OCA) that offered an explanation for Merchan’s involvement in Trump-related cases. CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP “As we’ve said repeatedly, including in April 2023, Judge Merchan was assigned to supervise the special grand juries that investigated the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg as well as Donald Trump,” said OCA spokesperson Al Baker. “He was, in turn, assigned the indictments that arose from those investigations, which is common practice since the judge supervising the grand jury investigation already has some familiarity with these often-complex cases and can manage them more efficiently,” Baker added. Stefanik, the chairwoman of the House Republican Conference, is seen as a contender to be Trump’s vice presidential running mate. The congresswoman previously filed an ethics complaint against Merchan, warning of a potential conflict of interest related to his daughter’s work.

There’s no doubt that talent runs in Loretta Lynn’s family. This couldn’t have been clearer when her granddaughter, Emmy Russell, auditioned for American Idol. This performance solidified the fact that she’s not only a fantastic singer but an amazing songwriter, too. That’s because she chose to sing an emotional original called Skinny. From there, Emmy went on to deliver one killer performance after another. Although Emmy was quick to become a fan-favorite, and her final American Idol performance is sure to go down as one of the best of that season, she ultimately didn’t win. She did, however, make it to the top five. Best of all, though, it’s clear that she’s garnered devoted fans who are eager for her to release new music. If you’re one of them, it seems you’re in luck! Emmy is working on music, and she’s sharing snippets on social media. Her newest, called strong face, can be heard in the video below. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Emmy Russell (@emmyroserussell) Like always, Emmy stuns with her beautiful voice and heart-wrenching lyrics. According to Emmy’s caption on this video, both she and some friends played a part in writing it. Together, they were able to capture the feeling of an all-too relatable scenario — acting like you’re okay after a breakup when you’re actually falling apart. Emmy Russell’s Heartbreaking Song Resonates Deeply With Fans This heartbreaking scenario is one that so many of Emmy’s fans have been through themselves. As a result, folks can’t stop raving over how much they adore it. Although the song isn’t available in full on any streaming services, her fans are begging for her to change that! “So many will identify with those lyrics,” one fan writes in the comments section of her video. “You need to record it!” “Amazing voice and such a poetic way at story telling while singing,” someone else shares with another person adding, “Beautiful. That resonates with my soul so much right now.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Emmy Russell’s Newest Heart-Wrenching Song Has “American Idol” Fans In Tears appeared first on InspireMore.